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Life during wartime by Peter Shippy
Ladies and Gentlemen, in this corner, wearing the emerald trunks, the woman who made David the 2nd most famous Byrne from RISD, I give you Mairéad, the Dublin Goblin (Pangolin? Javelin? Mescaline?)! Byrne’s no-holds ars (rim-shot)…
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An Affair to Remember: Three Writers, Two poets, and a Chef in Harlem by Madge McKeithen
The readers – two poets, three prose writers, and one chef-cookbook author — at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Saturday night had been asked to consider these questions: What is…
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Lera Auerbach’s new requiem (an “ode to peace” in Dresden)
Excerpt from ‚Die Welt’ – 12.02.2012 – by Joachim Lange The Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach, endowed with many talents and currently enjoying the success of her opera "Gogol" in Vienna, has expanded her large-scale Requiem into an…
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Mad Men Last Night: Dreams Deferred, Dashed, or Done [by Connie Aitcheson]
I could almost see the words of Langston Hughes scrolling across the bottom of the television screen: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?…
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Poetrynauts… to the launch bay! by Peter J. Shippy
Here’s a poem by Jennifer L. Knox (A Gringo Like Me, Bloof Books & Great American Prose Poems: Poe to the Present edited by Mr. Lehman, Scribner): Hot Ass Poem Hey check out the…
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“On Nature” [by Asa Drake]
I call you about detergentsbecause I don't know which one to pick.I want to say how none of these seem friendly to nature.One looks like it wants to be nature,but it's not friendly to…
